UFO in Her Eyes - Hardcover

Guo, Xiaolu

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0701183357 ISBN 13: 9780701183356

Publisher: Chatto & Windus, 2009

Synopsis

Silver Hill Village, 2012. On the twentieth day of the seventh moon Kwok Yun is making her way across the rice fields on her Flying Pigeon bicycle. Her world is upturned when she sights a UFThing – a spinning plate in the sky – and helps the Westerner in distress whom she discovers in the shadow of the alien craft. It’s not long before the village is crawling with men from the National Security and Intelligence Agency armed with pointed questions. And when the Westerner that Kwok Yun saved repays her kindness with a large dollar cheque she becomes a local celebrity, albeit under constant surveillance. As UFO Hotels spring up, and the local villagers go out of business, Xiaolu Guo’s startling parable of change imagines an uneasy future for rural China and its relations not only with Beijing but the wider world beyond.

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"Guo's humour is bracingly ironic and tinderbox dry."

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`the comedy is neatly poised'

About this edition

• Publisher: Chatto & Windus
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0701183357
• ISBN 13: 9780701183356
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208